Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanket speed limits applied to all vehicles must be set at such a low figure as to ensure reasonable safety with the most badly designed vehicle when it is in the worst acceptable state of maintenance . |
| 2 | The effects of ( b ) arise when barriers are of such a high level as to prevent any entry into the market . |
| 3 | If Nonconformists were slow to start , once they had they were eager to point out that while in England the Church outnumbered them ( as far as baptized members were concerned ) , in the Empire and America it was a different story as regards active members . |
| 4 | Since careful attention needs to be given to the economic , political and social setting when analysing industrial relations in various countries , it is useful to compare countries with broadly similar characteristics in these respects : ‘ By looking at industrial relations problems within a given grouping one achieves an ‘ automatic ’ , major reduction in the number of background … variables ' ( Kassalow , 1968 , p. 103 ) . |
| 5 | There are instances in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the courts have , despite such subjective wording , overturned decisions by finding that the power was being used for an improper purpose , or that the public body had applied the wrong test when construing legislative criteria . |
| 6 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 7 | The ancient Hindu seers depicted the original cosmic creative process with somewhat more sensitivity , poetic visualization and direct insight than does modern physics . |
| 8 | This was not supported by the results of the ICS , whose authors claim that their male interviewers actually uncovered more cases of sexual assault than did female interviewers . |
| 9 | For one distinguished American musicologist , the decision of some English scholars and musicians to draw the secular polyphony of Machaut and Dufay into the English a cappella tradition constitutes an ‘ English a cappella heresy ’ , but that phrase may sound rather strangely in a British ear ; it appears to imply that songs by Machaut and Dufay , for example , are best performed within the tradition of the ‘ early-music group , employing instruments reconstructed on the basis of meagre evidence while using musical techniques which draw upon no established tradition of pedagogy and which retain a tinge of 19605 experimentalism and superficial multiculturalism . |
| 10 | The former proposal could be seen as just a way of improving the quality of decision-making by the High Court when hearing judicial review applications . |
| 11 | In contrast , tax rates are relatively easy to alter and so may be the more appropriate means to adjust fiscal policy when changing economic conditions require action . |
| 12 | PENNY HASSET * , who showed marked improvement when encountering heavy ground for the first time at Wolverhampton recently , should make the most of similar conditions on her return to the course for today 's Daffodil Handicap ( 5.0 ) . |
| 13 | Anita encouraged him to go and decided that while he was away , running a shop would be a less demanding occupation than working all hours in a restaurant . |
| 14 | She always found herself adopting this haughty attitude when entering big houses or hotels of above average splendour . |
| 15 | In political matters , this was represented by a joint commitment to reinforce and promote democracy and political pluralism while retaining full respect for national sovereignty . |
| 16 | The subject has , inevitably , been approached from different theoretical perspectives , some of which have been more concerned to improve administrative performance and technical assistance than understand bureaucratic power ( as if the two can be separated ) . |
| 17 | Serious political divisions within the Congress , whose proceedings were brought to a standstill in October over the impeachment of the Minister of Public Works and Communications and the subsequent dismissal of the Congress president [ see pp. 37771-72 ] , threatened prolonged instability as did continued labour protests against anti-inflationary measures , culminating in a 24-hour general strike on Feb. 6 , 1991 [ see p. 38001 ] . |
| 18 | In general terms , we advocated that there should be explicit teaching about the nature and functions of Standard English in the top years of the primary school ; that there should be the beginnings of the expectation of Standard English in written work when appropriate by the age of 11 ; that there should be the provision of opportunities for oral work where spoken Standard English would be a realistic expectation in the secondary school ; and that all pupils should be in a position to choose to use Standard English in speech when appropriate by the age of 16 . |
| 19 | One of the American complaints against Japan is that Japan has had access to US government-funded research while denying foreign companies access to research funded by the Japanese government . |
| 20 | Some mongooses , for example , employ a similar handstand when marking overhanging branches with their personal scent , and South American bush dogs regularly stand on their front feet when leaving their personal odours on tree-trunks . |
| 21 | Conversely , indigenous politicians , who do not make explicit reference to the individual actor as having multiple points of view , may nevertheless in practice make considerable use of those multiple points of view that are implicit in the existence of different political factions . |
| 22 | Remember your personal security when viewing front gardens . |
| 23 | And his involvement with industrial relations in such countries as Japan , Portugal , and Greece set the pattern for their future development while creating new techniques of international supervision . |
| 24 | Tinryland was terribly disappointing on his seasonal debut at Newbury , but he would have a great each-way chance if reproducing last season 's form . |
| 25 | This , after all , must surely be the crucial factor when visiting established clubs . |
| 26 | Under the terms of the scheme the school had an absolute discretion whether to admit any boy and it could withdraw the concession at any time . |
| 27 | Nadia says she does not find her lack of fingers to be a serious drawback when tackling any task , apart from cutting food and using scissors . |
| 28 | In that year a senior master and professor of psychology , Eliot Hearst of Indiana University , wrote in a long review article : ‘ About the only way a current computer program could ever win a single game against a master player would be for the master , perhaps in a drunken stupor while playing 50 games simultaneously , to commit some once-in-a-year blunder … |
| 29 | However , independent schools retain a much higher proportion of their pupils after the legal minimum school-leaving age than do maintained schools , so that in 1988 , 19% of all boys and 15% of all girls over 16 were in independent schools . |
| 30 | It is equally true that they are not as suitable for a truly mixed sequential-direct application as indexed sequential files . |